Mandalay: And Other Cities of the Past in BurmaHutchinson & Company, 1907 - 435 páginas |
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Mandalay: And Other Cities of the Past in Burma Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor Vista completa - 1907 |
Mandalay, and Other Cities of the Past in Burma Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor Vista completa - 1908 |
Mandalay: And Other Cities of the Past in Burma Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor Vista completa - 1907 |
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Alompra Amarapura Ananda Anawrata ancient Aracan architecture army audience beauty Bin-ya-Ran Bo-daw-paya brick British Buddha Buddhist buildings built Burmese alphabet capital carved century A.D. Chinese conquest death East elephants Eliphant Emperor Empire eyes feet gate gilded gold golden hands hath hills hundred India inscription Irrawaddy Jewels King Mindon King of Ava King of Pagan King of Pegu King Thibaw King's kingdom kings of Burma Kutho-daw land live Mandalay Mandalay Palace Manuha Martaban Mergui Mindon Min Mingun Ministers moat Môn monastery monks neighbouring noble Pagan pagoda pagoda slave palace passed past Po-u-daung Prince Prome Queen reign rise river road rubies ruins Sagaing says Shan ships Siam Siamese spire splendour stands steamer stone Story of Pegu Supaya-lat Tagoung Talaing Taung-thu Taungu temple Tenasserim Thare-kettaya That-byin-nyu Thatôn THIRD BURMESE WAR thousand throne Tigyaing to-day traveller trees village walls zayat
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Página 196 - Godama were elapsed, and that he himself was the God, who was to appear after that period, and to abolish the ancient law in substituting his own. But to his great mortification many of the Talapoins undertook to demonstrate the contrary...
Página 359 - This country (Pegu) is distant 15 days' journey by land from another, called Ava, in which grow rubies and many other precious stones.' From Pegu, where he suffered many and great troubles, he set sail to go to Malacca, and, after being at sea 25 days, one morning found himself in a port of Sumatra, ' where grows pepper in considerable quantities, silk, long pepper, benzoin, white sandalwood, and many other articles.
Página 159 - I think the demeanour of the British resident and other officers ought to be mild and unassuming. The Burmans have been conquered, and know it. They should not be reminded of it by haughtiness of conduct, or assumption of superiority on the part of the British officers. Stickling for rank or precedence is generally not necessary at the Court of Ava, or, at least, more is to be lost than gained by entering into a contention with the Court upon such minute points. Should the Burmese discover that the...
Página 88 - ... Princess, their only child, and about five years of age, followed her Majesty, and seated herself between her parents. The Queen was received by the courtiers with similar prostrations as his Majesty, and we also paid her the same compliment as we had done to the King. When their Majesties were seated, the resemblance of the scene which presented itself to the illusion of a well got up drama, forcibly occurred to us ; but I may safely add, that no mimic exhibition could equal the splendour and...
Página 360 - Do not imagine that the king of Pegu enjoys as great a reputation as the king of Calicut, although he is so humane and domestic that an infant might speak to him, and he wears more rubies on him than the value of a very large city, and he wears them on all his toes. And on his legs he wears certain great rings of gold, all full of the most beautiful rubies; also his arms and his fingers all full.
Página 326 - Immediately after leaving the Ganges there is an island in the ocean called Khruse or the golden isle, which lies directly under the rising sun, and at the extremity of the world towards the east.
Página 366 - Pegu, made great havock among the Enemies Ships. Brama came on by Land like a Torrent, carrying all before him, and his Fleet covering the River, though as great as Ganges. With this Power he easily gained the City and Kingdom of Pegu. Ferdinand Morales met the Fleet with his, in respect of the other scarce visible, at the Point Ginamarreca, where was a furious, bloody and desperate Fight. But the Pegu's overpowered by the Brama's deserted Morales, who alone in his Galeot maintained himself against...
Página 158 - ... flood, the singularity of their construction, the height of the waters, which threaten inundation to the whole city, and the amphitheatre of lofty hills that nearly surrounded us, altogether presented a novel scene, exceedingly interesting to a stranger.
Página 384 - Chickinos, by the which they lose, and they bring them because they have no other thing that is good for Pegu : but they esteem not the losse of them, for that they make such great gaine of their commodities, that they carrie from thence out of that Kingdome.
Página 198 - ... to assert, that, during his reign, more victims have fallen by the hand of the executioner than by the sword of the common enemy. To this atrocious cruelty he has united a pride at once intolerable and impious. The good fortune which has attended him in discovering and defeating the numerous...